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According to the Hindu religion, Karma is a fundamental law of the universe, similar to the law of cause and effect but applied to all planes of existence. All our experiences make impressions on our minds, and the mind tracks and codifies them to create our internal tendencies. SegÚn la religiÓn hindÚ, el karma (acciÓn) es una ley fundamental del universo, una generalizaciÓn de la ley de la causa y efecto aplicada a todos los Ámbitos o planos de la existencia. Es el principio o ley universal de acciÓn y su efecto o consecuencia. Todas nuestras experiencias e impresiones de vida marcan tendencias en nuestra mente, son memorias del inconsciente que programan nuestra percepciÓn y acciÓn de las cosas y estÁn ligadas Íntimamente con la filosofÍa del karma y la rueda de reencarnaciones. La mente nace del karma y genera karma. El karma modela todas las formas del ser. Tenemos un programa de observaciÓn, una forma de percibir, y esa forma de percibir determina los acontecimientos percibidos. El karma nace de la mente y genera mente. Nuestro presente vive un futuro pasado, gobernado por los patrones de codificaciÓn, huellas, o surcos, que en la conciencia ocurre cuando algo mental no es digerido. Cuando esas impresiones se repiten, se fijan y se transforman en condicionamientos o tendencias internas que pueden activar y modificar los genes.

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Pru vive en una ciudad costera y, tras una noche de fiesta con sus amigos, descubre que acaba de adquirir una sorprendente habilidad: desatar karma al instante.Sin pensárselo dos veces, Pru comienza a usar su nuevo poder para castigar a cotillas que se dedican a extender rumores o a vándalos maleducados? Pero hay una persona con la que no parece funcionar: Quint Erickson, su compañero de laboratorio, que es un vago redomado. Quint es, además de irritantemente atractivo, impresionantemente noble, y resulta toda una experiencia verlo trabajar en el centro de rescate de animales marinos.Cuando Pru se resigna a trabajar en el centro de rescate por un crédito extra, comienza a descubrir cosas acerca de las crías de nutria, de los desastres medioambientales y de cómo funciona el amor? no necesariamente en este orden. Sus nuevas habilidades pronto le mostrarán lo fina que es la línea entre la virtud y la vanidad, entre la generosidad y la avaricia? el amor y el odio? y el destino.

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Six Suns, six blasts in the sky; a seventh one, and the earth will die. In the isolation of the Himalayas, the snows still fall, but they are tinged with the ash of a nuclear winter; the winds still blow, but they wail with the cries of ghosts. The seventh and final blast is near. As the world heaves its final breaths, the people of the Tibetan plateau—civilization's final survivors—are haunted by spirits and terrorized by warlords. Though the last of the seven prophesied cataclysms is at hand, young Karma searches for a father who disappeared ten years earlier, presumed dead.Driven by a yearning to see his father again before the end, and called by an eerie horn unheard by anyone else, Karma forges into the Himalayas and discovers that his father's disappearance may be linked to a mystical mountain said to connect the physical world with the spirit lands—and a possible way to save their doomed future.

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Village Voice Favorite Books of 2000 The popular book challenging the idea of a model minority, now in paperback!“How does it feel to be a problem?” asked W. E. B. Du Bois of black Americans in his classic The Souls of Black Folk. A hundred years later, Vijay Prashad asks South Asians “How does it feel to be a solution?” In this kaleidoscopic critique, Prashad looks into the complexities faced by the members of a “model minority”-one, he claims, that is consistently deployed as "a weapon in the war against black America."On a vast canvas, The Karma of Brown Folk attacks the two pillars of the “model minority” image, that South Asians are both inherently successful and pliant, and analyzes the ways in which U.S. immigration policy and American Orientalism have perpetuated these stereotypes. Prashad uses irony, humor, razor-sharp criticism, personal reflections, and historical research to challenge the arguments made by Dinesh D’Souza, who heralds South Asian success in the U.S., and to question the quiet accommodation to racism made by many South Asians. A look at Deepak Chopra and others whom Prashad terms “Godmen” shows us how some South Asians exploit the stereotype of inherent spirituality, much to the chagrin of other South Asians. Following the long engagement of American culture with South Asia, Prashad traces India’s effect on thinkers like Cotton Mather and Henry David Thoreau, Ravi Shankar’s influence on John Coltrane, and such essential issues as race versus caste and the connection between antiracism activism and anticolonial resistance.The Karma of Brown Folk locates the birth of the “model minority” myth, placing it firmly in the context of reaction to the struggle for Black Liberation. Prashad reclaims the long history of black and South Asian solidarity, discussing joint struggles in the U.S., the Caribbean, South Africa, and elsewhere, and exposes how these powerful moments of alliance faded from historical memory and were replaced by Indian support for antiblack racism. Ultimately, Prashad writes not just about South Asians in America but about America itself, in the tradition of Tocqueville, Du Bois, Richard Wright, and others. He explores the place of collective struggle and multiracial alliances in the transformation of self and community-in short, how Americans define themselves.

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Karma is the definitive autobiography from music icon, Boy George - the fabulous Grammy, Brit andIvor Novello award-winning lead singer of 80s pop/reggae band, Culture Club.Told in his inimitable style, Karma will reflect on Boy George's life as a kid growing up insixties London, through the hedonism of the seventies and the glam rock and punk rock revolutionthat birthed Culture Club, and the heydays of the nineties meeting musical legends like DavidBowie, Madonna and Prince - as well as addressing all those rumours. The book will reveal the highsand lows of love, loss, addiction, recovery, prison, and celebrity on Boy George's journey throughfame to finally embracing the man and artist that he is today: 'I went to a lot of trouble tocreate Boy George and then I went through a whole battle for years about not wanting to be him. Butnow I enjoy and embrace it in a way that I wasn't able to as a young person.... I'm learning to beGeorge Alan O'Dowd from Eltham who it turns out is quitean interesting person.'With all the humour, honesty, sarcasm (and hats!) that you'd expect, Karma gives us a uniqueinsight into Boy George's incredible story and the true evolution of a music icon.'Culture Club is always going to be one of those lovers I go back to. I've railed against it andthat Boy George character I created. For years I convinced myself I was a creature of habit,unchangeable, immovable. But eventually you have to look in the mirror. Not looking for spots, looking for something deeper. Whythe hell am I here? I would say lifeis the point of life.'

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Learn how cause and effect can help you shape your destiny with this guide to the principles of karma What goes around comes around One kind act can go a long way, and even the smallest deed can have a profound impact. Learn how to tap into the awesome power of karma with this little book, offering everything you need to know about this ancient source of spiritual wisdom. Discover the basic laws and principles of karma and how to apply them to your life, as well as the simple steps you can take to get you started on your karmic journey. With tips on how to be kinder to the planet, your community and yourself, these pages will help you embrace karma and invite more positivity into every day. This little book offers all you need to shape your future, encourage positive energy and achieve greater inner peace. You’ll soon find that just a few small acts of kindness and compassion can brighten your outlook and bring balance to your life.

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Una aspirante a actriz cansada de hacer castings...Un artista reconocido en plena crisis creativa...Unos valiosos cuadros encontrados en un desván...Y el arte del engaño para cambiar las leyes del karma.Después de vender más de 3.000.000 de ejemplares de sus novelas, Elísabet Benavent vuelve con El arte de engañar al karma, una novela donde despliega su virtuosismo narrativo, la magia para crear historias, con un estilo lleno de risas y lágrimas, en una novela sorprendente, llena de belleza y arte en la que las mujeres dejan de ser musas para ser creadoras. Y volar alto. Por encima de cualquier expectativa.Las lectoras han dicho sobre Un cuento perfecto:Un libro magnífico. Adictivo! Una historia real, bien escrita. He reído, llorado, suspirado. Elísabet, he leído todos tus libros y, aunque parezca imposible, sigues sorprendiéndome.Una historia madura que nos hace reflexionar. No es una novela al uso centrada

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A youth group’s temple road trip through India is a liberating escape for a former mean girl and sunshine boy to explore their past and their feelings for each other in the much-anticipated novel about self-discovery by the award-winning author of My So-Called Bollywood Life. Born and raised in the US, Tara Bajaj hides her family secrets. With beautiful clothes, a popular social media presence, and a spot on the Rutgers High Bollywood dance team, she does it well—until her carefully cultivated image shatters. Shut out by friends and with her future in flux, Tara accepts a guide position for a youth group’s temple tour through North India. Rediscovering the heart of her ancestry is as good a place as any to start over. Silas D’Souza-Gupta is an aspiring photojournalist retracing the journey his two mothers took when they fell in love. The last thing he expects on this road trip through his roots is a girl with a history of her own. As Tara and Silas embark on the trip to remote pilgrimage sites from Punjab through the Himalayas, they each discover what it means to be a child in the Indian diaspora, the significance of karma, and the healing power of love.

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A youth group’s temple road trip through India is a liberating escape for a former mean girl and sunshine boy to explore their past and their feelings for each other in the much-anticipated novel about self-discovery by the award-winning author of My So-Called Bollywood Life. Born and raised in the US, Tara Bajaj hides her family secrets. With beautiful clothes, a popular social media presence, and a spot on the Rutgers High Bollywood dance team, she does it well—until her carefully cultivated image shatters. Shut out by friends and with her future in flux, Tara accepts a guide position for a youth group’s temple tour through North India. Rediscovering the heart of her ancestry is as good a place as any to start over. Silas D’Souza-Gupta is an aspiring photojournalist retracing the journey his two mothers took when they fell in love. The last thing he expects on this road trip through his roots is a girl with a history of her own. As Tara and Silas embark on the trip to remote pilgrimage sites from Punjab through the Himalayas, they each discover what it means to be a child in the Indian diaspora, the significance of karma, and the healing power of love.

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What is a Buddhist response to political oppression and economic exploitation? Does Buddhism encourage passivity and victimization? Can violent perpetrators be brought to justice without anger and retributive punishment? What does Buddhism say -- or imply -- about collective karma and social justice?Rethinking Karma addresses these questions, and many more, through the lens of the Buddhist teachings on karma. Acknowledging that a skewed understanding of karma serves to perpetuate structural and cultural violence, specifically in the Buddhist societies of South and Southeast Asia, the book critically reexamines the teachings on karma as well as important related teachings on equanimity (upekkha), generosity (dana), and "merit" (punna).The eleven authors featured in this volume are thinker-activists who have been deeply involved in issues of social justice at a grassroots level and speak from their own experience in trying to solve them. For them, these issues are seminal ones requiring deeper contemplation and greater sharing, not only within the Buddhist community at large but among all those who seek to bridge the gaps between our idealization of human harmony, our tendencies toward violent confrontation, and the need for greater social justice.

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Ouyi Zhixu (1599–1655) was an eminent Chinese Buddhist monk who, contrary to his contemporaries, believed karma could be changed. Through vows, divination, repentance rituals, and ascetic acts such as burning and blood writing, he sought to alter what others understood as inevitable and inescapable. Drawing attention to Ouyi's unique reshaping of religious practice, Living Karma reasserts the significance of an overlooked individual in the modern development of Chinese Buddhism.While Buddhist studies scholarship tends to privilege textual analysis, Living Karma promotes a balanced study of ritual practice and writing, treating Ouyi's texts as ritual objects and his reading and writing as religious acts. Each chapter addresses a specific religious practice—writing, divination, repentance, vows, and bodily rituals—offering first a diachronic overview of each practice within the history of Chinese Buddhism and then a synchronic analysis of each phenomenon through close readings of Ouyi's work. This book sheds much-needed light on a little-known figure and his representation of karma, which proved to be a seminal innovation in the religious thought of late imperial China.

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Karma is perhaps the most famous concept in Indian philosophy, but this is the first comprehensive study of its various meanings and philosophical implications. Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions offers a harmony of approach and an underlying set of methodological assumptions: a corpus of definitions of karma, a dialectic between abstract theory and historical explanation, and an awareness of logical oppositions in theories of karma. No “solution” to the paradox of karma is offered, but the volume as a whole presents a consistent and encompassing approach to the many different, often conflicting, Indian statements of the problem. Broad in scope and richly detailed, this book demonstrates the impossibility of speaking of “the theory of karma” and supplies the basis for further study. Exploring methodological issues arising in the study of a non-Western system of soteriology and rebirth, the contributors question the interaction of medical and philosophical models of the human body, the incorporation of philosophical theories into practical religions with which they are logically incompatible, and the problem of historical reconstruction of a complex theory of human life. This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.

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This book presents the fundamental principles of the Jain karma doctrine through a fictional account of the relationship between a guru and his American student. As the story unfolds, the guru instructs the student on how ‘karmic debt’ is incurred as the result of personal action and how this ‘debt’ can be reduced through behavioral choices. With an emphasis on nonviolent action, Jainism elucidates the path whereby karmic attachment is decreased, leading to inner peace. The Path to Inner Peace serves as an in-depth analysis of which actions lead to karmic attachment, how to avoid karmic attachment and what the consequences of karmic attachment are. The issues of free will versus determinism and good versus evil are also dealt with in detail.

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Around the turn of the millennium, Pentecostal churches began to pepper majority-Buddhist Sri Lanka, setting off a sense of alarm among Buddhists who saw Christianity as a neocolonial threat to the nation. Rumors of foul play in the death of a Buddhist monk, as well as allegations of proselytizing in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami and during the final stages of civil war, spurred nationalist anxieties, moral panics, and even episodes of violence by Buddhists against Christians suspected of facilitating “unethical” conversions.Through vivid ethnography and keen observations of media events, Karma and Grace illuminates disputes over religious freedom and pluralism amid the rise of charismatic Christianity in Sri Lanka. Neena Mahadev explores the dueling efforts of Buddhist nationalists and Christian evangelists to reshape Sri Lanka’s religious, economic, and political landscapes. She considers theological and political impasses between Buddhism’s vast timescales of karma and Christians’ promises of the immediacy of their God’s salvific grace. While Christian missions spread “the Good News,” subsets of Buddhists produced bad press, sting operations, and disparaging media to impede born-again churches from taking root. In gripping detail, Mahadev recounts how modernist and traditionalist Theravāda Buddhists, Pentecostal newcomers, long-established Christian denominations, local deity and spirit cults, and the innovations of mavericks intermingle in a multireligious public sphere. Even amid trenchant conflicts, Karma and Grace demonstrates that social proximity between rivals is also conducive to religious experimentation and the ambiguities of identity that allow Sri Lankans to live with difference.

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Despite being one of the most avowedly secular nations in the world, Japan may have more prison chaplains per inmate than any other country, the majority of whom are Buddhist priests. In this groundbreaking study of prison religion in East Asia, Adam Lyons introduces a form of chaplaincy rooted in the Buddhist concept of doctrinal admonition rather than Euro-American notions of spiritual care.Based on archival research, fieldwork inside prisons, and interviews with chaplains, Karma and Punishment reveals another dimension of Buddhist modernism that developed as Japan’s religious organizations carved out a niche as defenders of society by fighting crime. Between 1868 and 2020, generations of clergy have been appointed to bring religious instruction to bear on a range of offenders, from illegal Christian heretics to Marxist political dissidents, war criminals, and death row inmates. The case of the prison chaplaincy shows that despite constitutional commitments to freedom of religion and separation of religion from state, statism remains an enduring feature of mainstream Japanese religious life in the contemporary era.

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